Oh gods, no... Danny Elfman scoring Terminator? Seriously? WTF?
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Am I the only one who thinks first that scoring a terminator means to have sex with one of the actresses who played a Terminator?
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I haven't heard a theme song in a very long time that's been very memorable to me. The entire Terminator franchise included.
That said, I really like a lot of Danny Elfman's works. I don't know why people in this thread are panicking over his attachment to the movie. Just because he's done a lot of more whimsical work, that doesn't mean he can't do anything else. And his filmography is pretty damn impressive.
That said, I really like a lot of Danny Elfman's works. I don't know why people in this thread are panicking over his attachment to the movie. Just because he's done a lot of more whimsical work, that doesn't mean he can't do anything else. And his filmography is pretty damn impressive.
Elfman IMHO has produced some great music in the past such as the Batman score, for example. I always liked that he seemed to have kind of a quirky, unusual style. That might have been streamlined a bit over the years, but I certainly think he can compose good scores. So in that regard, I'm not worried and will be curious to hear what he comes up with.
As for McCreary, I think it would be great if he were doing the score. I'm a big fan of his nuBSG music just like many of you as well. And I certainly think he'd be able to produce some great material.
Btw. for those of you panning Elfman and praising McCreary: There are connections between the two. For one, McCreary is a big fan of Elfman's and Elfman's band, Oingo Boingo (from http://www.tv.com/battlestar-galact...-bear-mccreary/topic/11046-897317/msgs.html):
Bear: I grew up listening to film music, especially Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, Danny Elfman and Jerry Goldsmith. My favorite bands are Oingo Boingo, Queen, Pink Floyd and Guns N' Roses.
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123: How many people from Oingo Boingo have contributed to the music of the show? I know about Richard Gibbs and Steve Bartek. Anyone else? Is Ronald Moore or David Eick a secret Oingo Boingo fan?
Bear: Aside from Richard Gibbs and Steve Bartek, bassist John Avila, drummer Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez and keyboardist / accordionist Doug Lacy have all pitched in. Sometimes I call the show "Boingostar Galactica."
Oh, and for the record, Goldsmith never held a candle to Williams
As for McCreary, I think it would be great if he were doing the score. I'm a big fan of his nuBSG music just like many of you as well. And I certainly think he'd be able to produce some great material.
Btw. for those of you panning Elfman and praising McCreary: There are connections between the two. For one, McCreary is a big fan of Elfman's and Elfman's band, Oingo Boingo (from http://www.tv.com/battlestar-galact...-bear-mccreary/topic/11046-897317/msgs.html):
Bear: I grew up listening to film music, especially Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, Danny Elfman and Jerry Goldsmith. My favorite bands are Oingo Boingo, Queen, Pink Floyd and Guns N' Roses.
(...)
123: How many people from Oingo Boingo have contributed to the music of the show? I know about Richard Gibbs and Steve Bartek. Anyone else? Is Ronald Moore or David Eick a secret Oingo Boingo fan?
Bear: Aside from Richard Gibbs and Steve Bartek, bassist John Avila, drummer Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez and keyboardist / accordionist Doug Lacy have all pitched in. Sometimes I call the show "Boingostar Galactica."
Oh, and for the record, Goldsmith never held a candle to Williams
No. I do remember him once mentioning that, despite the long hiatus between season 2 and 3 (or was it 3 and 4?), he still ended up getting the episodes late enough that the music wasn't in the can until a couple weeks before the airdate even with all that extra time (and the airdate had been settled on months and months before that). That's more of a post-production, filming schedule thing. And he didn't actually say it that way, he just pointed out which episode he was working on at the moment, and some people did the math and said, "Well, that's odd. You'd think that will that long delay, they would've been all finished months before airing instead of weeks."
This year, on the other hand, he said he's just now finishing up the finale, so the episodes will be complete and ready to go over two months before airdate.
Either way, it doesn't match the glory days of Babylon 5, where the episode "Into the Fire" was finished less than two hours before it had to be uplinked to the satellite to be distributed around the country due to the massive amounts of CGI in it.
Sounds like architecture school 
I'm not a fan of Elfman's. All of his scores sound the same: "Quirky" and "Whimsical." Which is fine for a quirky and whimsical movie like Pee Wee's Big Adventure. But I can't imagine anything he's ever done sounding even remotely appropriate for a grim action thriller like Terminator.
A big mistake, IMO, unless he can somehow change his style completely.
A big mistake, IMO, unless he can somehow change his style completely.
